77 King St W, Suite 4130, TD North Twr, PO Box 140, Toronto-Dominion Ctr, Toronto, ON
Year called to bar: 2009 (ON)
Edward (Ted) Marrocco is a litigator with a unique combination of courtroom skill and tech knowledge. He acts on commercial, regulatory, and public law matters including coroner’s inquests and public inquiries. He is regularly retained to work on cases involving computer-based evidence, including social media evidence and electronic data privacy. He helps lawyers and law firms respond to data breaches and often presents on cyber security topics at conferences for lawyers and private clients. In 2022, he was co-counsel on one of Ontario’s leading cases on abuse of process. The case turned on improper access to an opposing side’s electronic data system, and he was the lawyer responsible for the successful side’s computer forensics strategy. He also has a well-established regulatory and public law practice. In 2019, he was lead counsel for a police service at the inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. In late 2023, he acted on a landmark coroner’s inquest where he successfully represented the family of a man tragically killed by correctional officers at an Ontario super jail. He is a graduate of the London School of Economics and the University of Toronto. He is a co-author of Digital Privacy: Criminal, Civil and Regulatory Litigation (LexisNexis, 2018).
